threat of sanctions, possible rupture of the contract on the sale of F-35 fighters and promises to complicate life - Washington every way interfere with Ankara acquire anti-aircraft missile system S-400. Nevertheless, the Russian-Turkish agreement is carried out systematically. The first set of the customer will receive this week.
division four
On the supply of anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 "Triumph" Russia and Turkey agreed in the summer of 2017. In December, gave details: Turkey buys four divisions of S-400 2,5 billion. More than half of these means Moscow will provide as a loan. This caused a stir in the world media - the first time NATO countries purchase Russian air defense systems.
I do not make them wait, and Washington's reaction. One of the reasons for discontent - that, Ankara chose Russian equipment complexes Patriot, that the Turkish army "matchmaker" US defense industry. The Congress decided to put pressure on Ankara and declared, that in this case to suspend deliveries of the fifth generation fighter F-35. The draft US defense budget for 2020 is already the second prohibits the transfer of these aircraft.
Besides, US media have tried to scare the Moscow, Ankara reportedly offered the Pentagon to study the S-400. The Turkish Foreign Ministry is denied, assuring, that will not let the representatives of Washington to the air defense systems.
"Americans are a bit cunning, - said Honored Military Pilot of Russia Vladimir Popov. - Interest in the S-300, C-400 is very high all over the world. The United States also would not refuse to get through a NATO member this air defense system, how should it look and explore. However, the export version is very different from, than the favor of the Russian Army ".
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov stressed earlier, that the contract for the supply of S-400 includes non-disclosure of certain information by Ankara and Moscow trusts Turkish partners.
Close sky
Besides, NATO considered, that the simultaneous operation of the S-400 and F-35 fighter jets will allow to explore the capabilities of the aircraft, and Washington, naturally, He does not want.
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Sciences Sergei Sudakov explained concerns the Americans exactly, Turkey, one side, buys fighter F-35 - as a NATO member, on the other - gets S-400, designed to combat these aircraft.
"The US position the fighter-bomber F-35 as one of the most advanced weapons, able to destroy air defense system S-300 and S-400, - Sudak said. - But by and large there is no evidence that. Americans are very afraid, that thanks to the Russian complexes Turkey will create a unique system, which will overcome the innovation, incorporated in the F-35. That is, in the case of a hypothetical conflict in Turkey and NATO American aircraft completely lose their effectiveness ".
The expert added, that although Turkey is NATO from 1953, country and are not integrated into the Western world.
"This is a big state with imperial ambitions, that can behave aggressively, if cornered, - says Sudakov. - Erdogan made all, to protect themselves. Buying from Russian S-400, it forms a national security strategy for the decade ahead. Washington is well aware, it is impossible to put pressure on the country, oschetynyvshuyusya such systems PVO. After all, the Americans have a very simple strategy: if not agreed, we use force ".
deterrent
Howbeit, preparation for shipment of S-400 systems in Turkey is in normal mode. Choose a place based Tayyip Erdogan instructed the Ministry of Defense and General Staff. Vice President of the Turkish Group at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Ahmet Berat Chonkar in an interview with the newspaper "Izvestia" has not excluded, that the system is deployed on the border of Turkey and Syria.
"Around us some hot spots: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Cyprus, our entire region - as a big powder keg. The most serious threat - from the Eastern Mediterranean, from the corner, where Northern Cyprus and Syria. So the first thing we think about, how to secure our southern and eastern borders ", - he said.
known, the next largest buyer-400 - India. The Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said, that Russia hopes to get from Delhi advance for the S-400 to the end of the year. Shipments to India can begin in 2020 and be completed by 2025.
"It means, that in general the whole geopolitical world map redrawn, - believes Sudakov. - fundamentally changing the strategy itself warfare, revised concept of the so-called American exceptionalism. And Turkey has a catalyst in this process ".
One of the clearest illustrations of a powerful deterrent and effective use of Russian air defense systems abroad - placing SAM in Syria. The Syrian army has received several units of the previous generation (S-300V4) after the incident with reconnaissance aircraft IL-20 in September last year. The intensity of the coalition aviation led by the United States over the territory of the Arab Republic immediately plummeted. This also applies to Israeli planes, to this impunity flew over Syria.
A potential buyer of Russian air defense systems - Iran. As long as the application has been received, but stressed Russia FSMTC, that Moscow is open to negotiations on the "Triumph". Well, the first foreign buyer of the C-400 became China, whose army for several years successfully exploit the Russian air defense system.
